Rare find:

Overgrown Drive In Theatre. Abandoned since 1979. VERY apocalyptic. With almost all of the original projection equipment still in the projection booth! The place was all but swallowed up by a forest. The trees have engulfed/obscured the drive in from the road and I found it by chance. Name, unknown. There is no real info on this place on the Internet. 2009.

2013: Please forgive me for not disclosing the location, but I am working on a follow up film, and do not want this location to become desecrated or looted in any way. This is a very rare find and I vote to keep it preserved. Thank you!

ANOTHER ABANDONED DRIVE IN that I filmed in Massachusetts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjYBoP...

I went there, again, 3.5 years after this film was made...Somebody took the one 35 mm reel, but all else was still there. I have a theory as to why this drive in was left so intact over the 34 years it has been abandoned:

In the South, due to the excessive amount of abandoned farm houses, factories, and dwellings in general, many such places are not ransacked. That is, items of worth are often overlooked and left to rot. In other regions of the U.S. such an abandoned place would have been littered with graffiti and those projectors, speaker stand, etc...completely removed. I have run into other abandoned drive ins where that has been the exact case.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OWiXt1n1h8